Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-30
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

dealy 8 suspension IN the Engllsn house
of Commons will last fortnight
John Bright has consented to preside at
che banquet to be given by the unionists to
Lord Harrington in London.
Jos. Rich, his child and wife's mother were
cut to pieces in an attempt to cross the rail-
road track at Richmond, Ind, Friday.
Ernest Whelpley of Natick, Mass, aged
21, was bitten by dog month ago and
Thursday night bydrophobia developed. He
is not expected to live.
General Boulanger of Paris, Thursday
sent his seconds with challenge to Ferry to
fight duel, on account of a speech made by
Ferry attacking Baulanger.
AT Rochester, N. H., the adoption by the
Norway Plains company of the ten hour law
gives the employees a half holiday weekly,
the mill closing at IL M. Saturday.
Four men were arrested at Swanton, VT,
Friday, suspected of having burglarized the
store at Cowansville post Office Sunday night,
also the store of Jackson & Holdgee at Stan
bridge.
The body of James w. Frost, drowned
Monday night, July 1lth, was found in Web
ster Lake, n H., Thursday night, having
been brought to the surface by the thunder
storm.
R. G. Dunn & Co. and E. Russell & Co,
give the number of failures in the United
States for the last seven days as l62, and for
Canada %, as compared with the total of l72
last week.
The body of Miss Hattie F. Lewis of NAL
den, Mass who died recently in Florida,
was exhumed Friday and an autopsy held by
several doctors. The official report was Civ
en- Saturday.
Seven men have been arrested for par
ticipating in the riot at Limerick, Thursday,
of striking dockmen against imported Water
ford laborers. Four policemen and and many
civilians were injured.
Addressing the London liberal radical un-
ion Friday night, Gladstone showed by the
returns of the recent elections that if Parlia-
ment dissolved Saturday, the liberals would
triumph in the general election.
The remains of the late President Taylor
of the Mormon church of Salt Lake City,
were inferred, Friday, in the family lot in
the city cemetery. 1t is not likely that a
president will be named for many months to
come.
The National Whipmakers' Association
has been in session at Westfeld, Mass, all
the week. The association adjourned after
voting to rescind the schedule prices ar
raigned last November. general cut down
is expected.
The secretary of the interior has dismissed
the pension application of VIM. Hedgspeth of
the 42d Indiana Volunteers. Hedgspeth
enlisted in the rebel army to escape starva
tion in the rebel prison. He deserted at the
first opportunity and rejoined his old regi-
ment
At the convention of the International AS
sociation of fairs and expositions, at Toron-
to, resolution was passed that worlds fair
should be held in 1892. and Chicago as the
most suitable place. The next convention
will take place in Chicago, in November,
1885,
The directors of the exposition at Mime
spolis. MINI. are considering the ADVISABLE
ty of inviting ex-Premier Gladstone to open
the exposition this year by pressing an cleo
tric button in London. as Mrs. Cleveland did
in Washington last year Both of the cable
companies are investigating.
The boiler of the Houston Lumber Co.'s
saw and planning mill at Houston, Tex, ex-
ploded Friday, killing the general manager
of the company and four laborers. Three
others are reported missing. Fragments of
the boiler were carried distance of nearly a
mile, falling upon and wrecking car load
of lumber and bending the track of the South
ern Pacific railway.